Program Manager with Data Governance Exp

Job Description

Job Description

Program Operations

Own the program plan: maintain the Jira project board, track milestones against the 24-month roadmap, flag risks and blockers to the DGO Lead weekly

Prepare the monthly Council scorecard pack: pull the KPI metrics, draft the narrative, identify escalations, and present the supporting slide — DGO Lead presents, DG Program Lead owns the content

Coordinate the monthly DG Council: agenda, pre-reads, domain escalations, policy review items, and action tracking

Own the program communications calendar: all-hands kickoff, domain workshop scheduling, steward onboarding, literacy curriculum assignment

Domain Onboarding & Governance Activation

Lead the Data domain pilot end-to-end: Data Owner designation, Steward onboarding, Alation orientation, domain workshop delivery (co-facilitated with Literacy Academy), DQ dimension workshop with the DQ Engineer

Build the domain onboarding playbook from the pilot — the repeatable template used for all other remaining domains in Phases

Drive Data Owner designation across all data domains: coordinate with each domain product owner, manage the designation form process in Jira, track completion against the 30-day Council commitment

Onboard Data Stewards to Alation: coordinate Alation Academy enrollment, run the Steward orientation session, track the 6-week curation ramp for each new Steward

Manage the data issue intake process: own the P1/P2/P3 Jira queue, ensure SLA adherence is tracked for program KPI, maintain and follow escalate process.

Policy & Standards

Draft all program domains data policies for DGO Lead review and Council approval — starting with the key foundational policies.

Maintain the policy register: version control, review schedule, annual renewal coordination

Own the data classification policy: work with InfoSec to ensure Alation sensitivity tags align to the Unity Catalog RBAC tiers

Author the domain governance playbooks: per-domain documentation of Data Owner, Steward, DPO, DQ thresholds, glossary scope, and AI data governance checklist process

Alation Governance Layer

Work with the Alation Catalog Engineer to configure the governance workflow in Alation: approval chains, steward assignment, policy publication, DQ Certificate issuance process

Own the business glossary governance: term proposal workflow, approval routing, publication standards

Monitor Alation catalog coverage monthly: track program KPI (catalog coverage %) across all domains, identify gaps, and assign remediation to the relevant Steward or DPO

Coordinate AI data governance in Alation: ensure model cards are registered, lineage is documented from source to model input, and the AI data governance checklist is completed for each active AI use case

Qualifications

Required

CDMP (Certified Data Management Professional) required at hire or firm commitment to certify within 12 months — DAMA DMBOK2 proficiency is the practitioner foundation for this role

7+ years in data management, data governance, or enterprise program management

Hands-on experience with an enterprise data catalog (Alation strongly preferred; Collibra or Informatica Axon, Atlan acceptable)

Demonstrated experience running a governance program across multiple business domains — not just one department

Strong written communication: able to write data policies, governance playbooks, and executive briefing materials that are clear, precise, and stakeholder-appropriate

Experience facilitating workshops with business and technical stakeholders — able to run a DQ dimension workshop with a domain VP and a team of engineers in the same room

Preferred

Health plan or healthcare payor experience — HEDIS, Stars, Medicare Advantage, HIPAA

Experience with Jira for governance workflow management (not just engineering sprint tracking)

Familiarity with Great Expectations or equivalent DQ framework

Experience with Databricks Unity Catalog or equivalent data access governance layer

CDMP Practitioner or Master level

Key Competencies

Systematic thinker — able to see the full data domain program and still execute the day-to-day pilot detail simultaneously

Clear writer — governance only works if the policies and playbooks are understood; this person writes so non-data people get it

Follows through — the single biggest failure mode in governance programs is well-designed commitments that nobody tracks; this role exists to prevent that

Comfortable with ambiguity — this program is new; the DG Program Lead regularly encounters situations the playbook doesn't yet cover